Additional links to English-language news
- In the West, Google's homepage uses what is self-described as a "sequential exploration" pattern, which displays search results hierarchically and with very little clutter. Google's had a difficult time tapping into the South Korean market, however, presumably due to South Korean web users' preference for search engines which utilize a "spatial" layout, where all sorts of information pops up (some directly relevant, some indirectly so) and the user can pick and choose. By "koreanizing" its local homepage, Google hopes to compete more effectively with local alternatives such as Naver and Daum. Is a site re-design enough for Google to break South Korea's trend of rejecting global online service providers?
Darryl
D'Monte provides an interesting take on the potentially conflicting roles
that the media can play with respect to the international climate change
agenda.
NGOs
in Cambodia stated that infection rates among drug users, sex workers, and men
who have sex with men remain "troubling", despite signs of success in
overall rates of HIV infection.
The Council on Foreign Relations has just released a new digest of existing polling data on global public attitudes on the world's challenges and on the institutions designed to address them.
- Of particular interest is the section on human rights, specifically freedom of expression, media freedom, and social and economic rights. Apparently, a large majority in each country believes their government should be responsible to take care of the basic needs of its citizens. However, this majority splinters in the perception of what the government has done and should be doing to fulfill these responsibilities.
- This article is from May, but the scope of its analysis includes examination of all 1,094 grants awarded by the Gates Foundation between 1998 and 2007, totaling $9 billion. Does the Foundation have too much policy leverage and power in settin gthe health agenda in many countries?
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